Some notes about Donald Trump's 2025-02-19 weird statements about Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.| /dev/posts/
There is little doubt that the US embargoes on Japan pushed an already aggressive Japan towards Pearl Harbor. Japanese Navy doctrine had already been contemplating a conflict with the US and this gave them the choice of backing down or going to war. Beginning in 1938, the U.S. adopted a succession of increasingly restrictive trade restrictions with Japan. This included terminating its 1911 commercial treaty with Japan in 1939, further tightened by the Export Control Act of 1940. These efforts...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
Came across this list of Civil Division Enforcement Priorities from the Justice Department. It lists 5 priorities signed June 11, 2025. Combatting Discriminatory Practices and Policies Ending Antisemitism Protecting women and children Ending sanctuary jurisdictions Prioritizing Denaturalization (?) Under the blurb about denaturalization it lists 10 reasons a person can be denaturalized. The first 8 seem reasonable, threat to the nation, engaged in torture, war crimes, human trafficking, gangs...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
I know this ruling will be appealed, but if the final ruling (after many more months and many more appeals) was that Trump’s L.A. troop deployment was illegal, what repercussions would this have? He sent all those troops to Southern California in June, so the damage has already been done. What would change if, months from now, the final ruling is that he acted illegally?| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
Quite recently, the Trump administration announced that it will not issue visas to Palestinian leaders, to attend an upcoming UN General Assembly, for "internationalising" the Gaza genocide in ICC and ICJ and seeking international support against Israel: The Week(Aug 2025): The justifications given by Washington are wide-ranging. The State Department accuses the Palestinians of failing to repudiate terrorism, pointing to the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. It also cit...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
It was recently reported in the New York Times that the US government is refusing to issue a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, who was recently nominated as Iran's ambassador to the United Nations. Since ...| Politics Stack Exchange
Why are illegal immigrants counted towards congressional district apportionment and allocation of Electoral College votes in the United States? I wonder about the origins and the rationale behind t...| Politics Stack Exchange
When the primary election for a party's nominee ends in a toss-up or close contest, wouldn't it be smarter for a party to nominate the candidate who is more effective in general election swing stat...| Politics Stack Exchange
A Forbes article and the University of Melbourne, among other sources, claim “Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round”, which seems to imply that one third of American| Skeptics Stack Exchange
The reports seem largely from right wing sources such as Free Beacon so I'm a bit skeptical, especially since this seems to be coincidentally a big deal around the time a U.S. president has again deployed military forces against citizens, justifying it by citing statistics at odds with the actual published ones, but I'm also willing to admit my own bias. The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying ...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
I saw this claim on the politics stack exchange in a highly upvoted post... And I have to ask, is this true? It's only been since the 1990s that people have started talking about illegal entry into the US, and that was mainly a matter of drug enforcement: people trying to circumvent import controls to bring in illegal substances, not illegal immigration per se. -- Ted Wrigley politics.stackexchange If this is not the case, does anyone know the earliest reference to illegal immigrants or illeg...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
William Bergman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking published this working paper on 30 July. The original paper is very long but there's some short and more readable commentary from Yves Smith. It claims that the Federal Reserve has been losing on the order of $100B / yr through interest payments on bank reserves and been hiding these losses through accounting practices that are outside the norm or somehow untoward in some way I don't understand. It has something to do with things like...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
The United States Supreme Court has ruled the Trump administration can proceed with plans to slash staffing at...| www.canberratimes.com.au
The post Weather Research and Missile Defense: Save for a Rainy Day appeared first on Missile Threat.| Missile Threat
On June 12, 2025, the CSIS Missile Defense Project hosted a fireside chat with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, on why protecting America's electromagnetic spectrum is critical to U.S. national security. The discussion examined spectrum challenges across defense, critical infrastructure, and emerging technologies that underpin our national security. The post Protecting America’s Spectrum: A Fireside Chat with Sena...| Missile Threat
Auctioning the low-3 S-band spectrum for commercial 5G use poses serious national security risks, potentially interfering with military radar and missile defense systems. Given escalating air and missile threats, the U.S. should maintain exclusive military access to this spectrum while continuing to study long-term sharing options. The post Why Auctioning Military S-Band Spectrum Is a Bad Idea appeared first on Missile Threat.| Missile Threat